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Vladimir Ozerov commented on IGNITE-6171: ----------------------------------------- [~cyberdemon], the very problem with this approach is that we observe GC pause _after_ it finished. This is fine to log max GC pause somewhere and show a kind of "red flag" to the user. But we cannot react to this pause anyhow. To the constrast, solution with native threads will allow to shutdown unresponsive node _during_ GC pause. This was the original idea. But the question is - does original idea makes sense? Do we really want to shutdown the node due to long GC pause? This needs to be discussed separately. > Native facility to control excessive GC pauses > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: IGNITE-6171 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-6171 > Project: Ignite > Issue Type: Task > Components: general > Reporter: Vladimir Ozerov > Assignee: Dmitriy Sorokin > Labels: iep-7, usability > > Ignite is Java-based application. If node experiences long GC pauses it may > negatively affect other nodes. We need to find a way to detect long GC pauses > within the process and trigger some actions in response, e.g. node stop. > This is a kind of Inception \[1\], when you need to understand that you sleep > while sleeping. As all Java threads are blocked on safepoint, we cannot use > Java's thread to detect Java's GC. Native threads should be used instead. > Proposed solution: > 1) Thread 1 should periodically call dummy JNI method returning current time, > and set this time to shared variable; > 2) Thread 2 should periodically check that variable. If it has not been > changed for some time - most likely we are in GC pause. Once certain > threashold is reached - trigger compensating action, whether this is a > warning, process kill, or what so ever. > Justification: crossing native -> Java boundaries involves safepoints. This > way Thread 1 will be trapped if STW pause is in progress. Java method cannot > be empty, as JVM is smart enough and can deduce it to no-op. > \[1\] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)